These great turning-days of life cast no shadow before, slip by unconsciously. — Rebecca Harding Davis
America may have great poets and novelists, but she never will have more than one necromancer. — Rebecca Harding Davis
It has happened to me to meet many of the men of my day whom the world agreed to call great. — Rebecca Harding Davis
I went to concord, a young woman from the backwoods, firm in belief that emerson — Rebecca Harding Davis
For, after all, put it as we may to ourselves, we are all of us from birth to death — Rebecca Harding Davis
Every child was taught from his cradle that money was mammon, the chief agent of the flesh and the devil. — Rebecca Harding Davis
War may be an armed angel with a mission, but she has the personal habits of the slums. — Rebecca Harding Davis
You will find the poet who wrings the heart of the world, or the foremost captain of his time — Rebecca Harding Davis
You were only truly patriotic if you had a laborer for a grandfather and were glad of it. — Rebecca Harding Davis
We have grown used to money. The handling, the increase of it, is the chief business — Rebecca Harding Davis
Our village was built on the ohio river, and was a halting place on this great national road — Rebecca Harding Davis
North and south were equally confident that God was on their side, and appealed incessantly to him. — Rebecca Harding Davis
It is a good rule never to see or talk to the man whose words have wrung your heart — Rebecca Harding Davis
To preach a sermon or edit a newspaper were the two things in life which I always felt — Rebecca Harding Davis
The histories which we have of the great tragedy give no idea of the general wretchedness — Rebecca Harding Davis